Books to Read Related to Social Studies Topics:
(Please note, we are adding to this list all the time. If you have a suggestion, let us know! Thank you!)
If you really enjoyed a topic that we studied in social studies and you want to experience more, here are some suggestions:
If you really enjoyed a topic that we studied in social studies and you want to experience more, here are some suggestions:
Books Related to Europe:
Living in Roman Times by Jane Chisholm
The Romans: Usborne Illustrated World History by Anthony Marks & Graham Tingay
Living Through World War I by Nicola Barber
All Quiet on the Western Front (WWI) by Erich Maria Remarque
War Horse (WWI) by Michael Morpurgo
The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle (WWI)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Post WWI-WWII)
Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens & Hitler's Olympics by Jeremy Schaap (pre-WWII)
The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot" (WWII) by Michael Tunnell
The Diary of Anne Frank (WWII) by Anne Frank
Number of Stars by Lois Lowry (WWII)
Hilmar and Odette: Two Stories from the Nazi Era by Eric Koch (WWII)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (WWII) by John Boyne
Prisoner B-3087 (WWII) by Alan Gratz
Breaking Stalin's Nose (WWII) by Eugene Yelchin
The Enemy Above: A Novel of WWII by Michael P. Spradlin
Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust (WWII) by Ruth Thomson
I Survived: The Nazi Invasion, 1944 by Lauren Tarshis (WWII)
The Bomb (WWII) by Theodore Taylor
World War II Europe: Chronicle of America's Wars by Margaret J. Goldstein
Living Through World War II by Andrew Langley
Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust by Susan Bachrach (WWII)
The Upstairs Room by: Johanna Reiss (Holocaust-WWII)
The Right Fight by Chris Lynch (WWII)
The Secret of Priest's Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story (WWII) by Peter Lane Taylor and Christos Nicola
A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor (WWII) by Harry Mazner
Books Related to Africa:
Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan (Sudan) by Mary Williams
Poems from Africa selected by Samuel Allen
African Mythology by Jim Ollhoff
Cry the Beloved Country (South Africa) by Alan Paton
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Botswana) by Alexander McCall Smith
Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book (Swahili) by Muriel and Tom Feelings
Moja Means One: A Swahili Counting Book (Swahili) by Muriel and Tom Feelings
Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Margaret Musgrove, Leo Dillon, and Diane Dillon
The Devil's Breath by David Gilman (fiction-Namibia)
Good Morning, Gorillas by Mary Pope Osborne (fiction)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park (Sudan)
Facing the Lion: Growing up Maasai on the African Savanna by Joseph Lemasolai
Nelson Mandela by Jill C. Wheeler (South Africa)
Nelson Mandela by Liz Gogerly (South Africa)
Nelson Mandela: An Unauthorized Biography by Sean Connolly (South Africa)
The Year the Gypsies Came by Linzi Glass (South Africa)
South Africa, Coming of Age Under Apartheid by Jason Laure' and Ettagale Laure'
Kaffir boy : the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Books Related to Asia:
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Post WWII Japan) by Eleanor Coerr
Echoes of the White Giraffe by Sook Nyul Choi (Korea)
Mieko and the Fifth Treasure (Post WWII Japan) by Eleanor Coerr
Three Cups of Tea (Afghanistan-historical fiction) by David Oliver Relin and Greg Mortenson
Peak (Mt. Everest) by Roland Smith
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter (China) by Adeline Yen Mah
Words in the Dust (Afghanistan) by Trent Reedy
The Kite Fighters by Linda Sue Park (Korea)
Lawrence of Arabia by Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart (WWI/Ottoman Empire)
Drawing From Memory (WWII-Japan) by Allen Say
Between Shades of Gray (WWII-Siberia) by Ruta Sepetys
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-Li Jiang (Communism)
A Dream of Red Mansions translated by various authors (Chinese Classics-4 Novels)
Books Related to Social Studies (General)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth
Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Stowaway by Karen Hesse